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Raul Villar Jr. is the CEO of Optro. He joined Optro following a highly successful tenure as CEP of Paycore, a prominent human capital management software company. During his time there, Raul was instrumental in accelerating product innovation, scaling operations, and significantly expanding market share, culminating in its sale to Paychex for $4.1 billion in April 2025.

His deep expertise in B2B SaaS, enterprise software, and fostering customer-centric cultures aligns perfectly with Optro’s mission to transform how organizations manage risk. Prior to Paycor, Raul held leadership roles at AdvancedMD and ADP, demonstrating a proven ability to drive operational excellence and market expansion, and a commitment to fostering strong company cultures and driving customer satisfaction.

April Crichlow is the Chief Marketing Officer at Optro. An experienced global B2B SaaS marketing leader, April oversees the marketing team and aims to accelerate the awareness of Optro’s innovative solutions amidst continued rapid growth and international expansion. She has led global thought leadership and strategic partnerships on inclusive culture, women’s equality, and sustainable supply chains, growing brand reputation with the United Nations, the New York Stock Exchange, AAPI networks, and Cannes Lions. April has also been honored by CRN’s “Women of the Channel” and as a “Top 100 Ethnic Minority Executive” by EmPower, presented by the Financial Times and Yahoo Finance.

- Most recently, April served as the Chief Marketing Officer at Centrical, a growth-stage B2B SaaS company that offers an AI-driven employee performance experience platform to customers in 150 countries and 40 different languages.
- Prior to Centrical, she spent over 15 years at SAP, where she was the Chief Marketing Officer for SAP SuccessFactors, which serves 267 million users across 200 countries.
- She also held several customer and partner marketing leadership roles throughout her tenure. At SAP, she built the category growth of Human Experience Management (HXM), led an award-winning customer marketing organization at SAP Ariba, and created SAP’s first partner demand generation practice.

As Chief Technology Officer for Optro, Haibei “Happy” Wang leads the Engineering and IT organizations in developing and scaling innovative technology solutions. Before joining Optro, Wang served as the Chief Technology Officer at Everbridge, where she led worldwide product development, data, and artificial intelligence and machine learning teams. Prior to Everbridge, she spent more than 20 years in leadership roles at high-growth technology companies like ServiceNow and PayPal.

Guru Sethupathy is the GM of AI Governance at Optro. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of FairNow (now part of Optro), a governance platform that simplifies AI governance through automation and intelligent and precise compliance guidance, helping customers manage risks and build trust and adoption in their AI investments. Prior to founding FairNow, Guru served as an SVP at Capital One, where he led teams in building AI technologies and solutions while managing risk and governance. Guru also spent time at McKinsey, where he advised Fortune 100 leaders on harnessing the power of analytics and AI while managing risks. All told, Guru has spent two decades in the AI space, spanning academia, corporate, and start-up roles, conducting research on AI systems and their implications for business value, risks, and the workforce. He has a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University and a PhD in Economics from Columbia University.

Kieran Taylor is a co-founder of Midship, an AI platform that automates controls testing. Midship's agents process PBC evidence and produce fully documented workpapers ready for external auditor reliance. Kieran now serves as the Senior Director of Engineering at Optro.

He started his career at Deloitte in London, building audit-ready GDPR compliance systems for a FTSE 100 bank. He later moved to the U.S. and joined Instacart, where he led an initiative to build a unified permissions system for IPO preparedness. After experiencing the pain of preparing for first year SOX, he started Midship to augment auditors with AI-assisted tooling.